UP violence: Maintain peace, urges Samyukt Kisan Morcha

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 3

Even as senior leaders of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM rushed to Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, they have appealed to the farmers to maintain peace at all costs and not get provoked.

Probe needed

Thorough probe needed... Justice must be ensured for the victims of the violence. Violence or provocation of violence is no solution to any problem. — Capt Amarinder Singh, former CM

Several farmers were killed afte allegedly being run over by vehicles of the kin and supporters of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra. Farmers were protesting against the BJP for enacting the three farm laws.

Book minister’s son

All perpetrators, including the Minister of State for Home’s son, should be booked for murder. Anything less than that would be a gross miscarriage of justice. — Partap Singh Bajwa, Cong MP

SKM leader Balbir Singh Rajewal said this was a well-planned attack, and not an act of rage at the spur of the moment. “Two days back, we had received an audio recording, where Mimister Mishra was heard saying if the farmers tried to protest during his visit, he would fight them out. But not scared of the threat, the protesting farmers occupied the helipad where the minister was supposed to land. In the protest, the minister's son and his close aides came in cars and mowed down farmers,” he alleged.

The BKU leader said their message to the farmers was clear — the BJP is not with us, but we are with our country. “We are asking them not to take law in their own hands. We demand that an FIR on charges of homicide be registered against the minister and his aides and a sitting judge of the Supreme Court conduct an investigation into the incident. The minister should be immediately sacked by the BJP government,” he demanded.

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